Suspect admits to spying on girlfriend in Basalt with potty cam

A Basalt City Market employee was arrested on suspicion of multiple crimes Friday after police say he installed a camera in the women's bathroom of the store to spy on his girlfriend.

Louis Garcia Turbin, 29, of Blue Lake in El Jebel, allegedly placed a camera shaped like a standard electrical outlet on the wall of a handicapped-toilet stall of the bathroom, according to Basalt Police Sgt. Penny Paxton. The girlfriend reported the strange object to the store security officer Friday and Turbin was brought in for questioning.

"It was obvious it wasn't supposed to be there," Paxton said of the video camera. It looked like an outlet, she said, except there was a hole between the plug-ins.

Paxton said Turbin admitted to installing the camera after she read him his rights.